An interesting experiment by the Wall Street Journal: someone with a video camera sat in on a recent editorial board meeting talking about whether the paper should write an editorial about a recent attack in Najaf. If you follow this link, click on “Opinion” and then “Inside the Editorial Page.”
From Editor’s Weblog comes news that on January 2, what is arguably the world’s oldest newspaper stopped publishing print editions and is now available on the Web only. The Swedish daily Post och Inrikes Tidningar (Post and Domestic Newspapers) has been publishing news announcements since the Swedish state started it in 1645 to cover foreign events from a Swedish perspective.
According to The Local, “at the end of the eighteenth century Gustaf III awarded the Swedish Academy the right to publish the newspaper. This principle still holds firm today, with the Academy’s permanent secretary Horace Engdahl currently holding the position of editor.”
The Fresno Bee, a newspaper owned by McClatchy — which also owns the Sacramento Bee and the Modesto Bee — has just acquired two community-media sites, FresnoFamous.com and ModestoFamous.com, for an undisclosed sum (hat tip to J.D. Lasica). The sites were founded by Jarah Euston, a former bond analyst who writes about the acquistion here. She and a small team built the websites up over the past two years to have 2,000 members and about 150,000 page views a month. The newspaper writes about the purchase here.
